The new gun laws in America do have one advantage. For example, in 2021, when an armed Proud Boy was chasing antifa members during a covid-lockdown protest in Olympia, Wash., he shot himself in the foot. Perhaps next time he'll fire about two meters higher.
Otherwise, our Pandora Box of a Supreme Court has opened up precisely what one would expect:
"This month, armed protesters appeared outside an elections center in Phoenix, hurling baseless accusations that the election for governor had been stolen from the Republican, Kari Lake. In October, Proud Boys with guns joined a rally in Nashville where conservative lawmakers spoke against transgender medical treatments for minors.
"In June, armed demonstrations around the United States amounted to nearly one a day. A group led by a former Republican state legislator protested a gay pride event in a public park in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Men with guns interrupted a Juneteenth festival in Franklin, Tenn., handing out fliers claiming that white people were being replaced. Among the others were rallies in support of gun rights in Delaware and abortion rights in Georgia." (Bold mine.)
An analysis by The New York Times "of more than 700 armed demonstrations found that, at about 77 percent of them, people openly carrying guns represented right-wing views, such as opposition to L.G.B.T.Q. rights and abortion access, hostility to racial justice rallies and support for former President Donald J. Trump’s lie of winning the 2020 election."
States are finding that the adoption of newly "constitutional" gun restrictions is nearly impossible because of a 2020 Supreme Court decision. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the Court, almost unbelievably, ruled that "Not only must a modern gun restriction have a historical analog, the time period matters. The relevant period ... is from about 1791 — when the Second Amendment was ratified — to about 1868 — when the 14th Amendment, which the Supreme Court has interpreted to apply the Bill of Rights to the states, was ratified."
The passage is from The Trace, "The Real Significance of the Supreme Court's Gun Decision." The website's article notes that "Even then, the analogs need to be well-established — the existence of a regulation in history can be ignored if the regulation wasn’t adopted by enough states." To pass a rational gun law, states must clear hurdles atop hurdles atop hurdles.
On behalf of right-winging gun nuts, America's gun laws are doing their intended work. Said Kevin Thompson, executive director of the Museum of Science & History in Memphis, Tenn., which had to cancel an L.G.B.T.Q. event in September because of armed protesters, "It’s disappointing we’ve gotten to that state in our country. What I saw was a group of folks who did not want to engage in any sort of dialogue and just wanted to impose their belief."
There's a word for this: fascism.